Healthy Lifestyle

Candy Bars

Chocolate is calorie-dense. A 1.55-ounce bar of milk chocolate contains 235 calories. This amount is more than many other snack foods provide. Consuming too many high-calorie foods can lead to obesity. Among disadvantages of eating chocolate is it is not only high in total fat, but high in saturated fat. Each 1.55-ounce serving of chocolate contains 8.14 grams of saturated fat, a type of fat that may increase your risk of heart disease.

Chocolate has a rich flavour not only because of the fat it contains, but also from high sugar content. Each 1.55-ounce serving, or about one bar, contains 22.66 grams of sugar. Although sugar, as with other carbohydrates, can provide energy, it has several nutritional drawbacks. Sugar can promote tooth decay, and a diet high in sugar may increase your risk of heart disease. Dark chocolate also contains a lot of sugar, but less than milk chocolate. A 1.55-ounce serving of 70 percent dark chocolate delivers 10.54 grams of sugar -- less than half of what milk chocolate contains.

Chocolate can have a detrimental effect on your health if you eat it instead of a healthier snack, because of its few beneficial nutrients. Chocolate is not a significant source of vitamins, and provides just 8 percent of the daily-suggested intake of calcium and 2 percent of the daily-suggested intake of iron

Don’t take the biscuit 

Call them biscuits in Europe or cookies/crackers in United States and Canada, these small flour- based, usually sweetened. One of the main concerns when consuming commercial or store bought biscuits is the amount of calories from carbohydrates and fats.

The English tradition of “dunking” biscuits in tea to soften them has led to a hardier or stable variety of teatime biscuits. In recent times, the health industry has caught on to this food in a big way with the inclusion of digestive biscuits, dietary biscuits for weight loss or fibre, calcium fortified biscuits, glucose biscuits, and protein-enabled biscuits.

Many people believed that since soda bicarbonate remedies indigestion, biscuits, which contain baking powder, might also help with the same. However, not all biscuits provide a remedy for digestive disorders. Moreover, refined flour used in biscuits may cause constipation in some individuals. Gluten allergy is one of the major side effects of biscuits.

Watch out for much salt you are intake 

We all know of salt, it’s been around with thousands of years and will be around for a long time to come. Salt contains Sodium and we need a certain amount of Sodium to keep our bodies operating properly but conversely too much Sodium can cause terrible health issues

Excessive sodium in the diet has many serious, dangerous side effects. When the kidneys which naturally balance sodium levels cannot excrete sufficient sodium, it begins to aggregate in the blood. Too much sodium can lead to high blood pressure as well as fluid build-up in people with congestive heart failure, cirrhosis or kidney disease.

Table salt is 40 percent sodium, and the most common dietary source of it. One teaspoon of table salt contains 2,300 milligrams of sodium, which is the recommended maximum intake of sodium per healthy adult per day, according to government nutrition experts. Individuals with high blood pressure should limit their sodium intake to 1,500 milligrams daily. Keep in mind that many foods, especially processed and prepared foods, contain high levels of sodium. People with congestive heart failure, cirrhosis of the liver and kidney disease might require significantly lower amounts of sodium.